New York City Sunset - Skyline

- By Vivienne Gucwa
I never really get tired of this view.
I know I have expressed that sentiment many times but it's absolutely true. There's something incredibly breathtaking that occurs when you are above the rooftops of the city. It's as if the city shrinks below a vast sky in a huge universe and everything that once seemed impossible seems effortless and within the realm of possibility.
It's so easy to forget that sort of thing when you live in a large city like New York City. When you are in the thick of it all, it can feel like the you are alone in a never-ending maze of cavernous streets as everyone else's dreams and hopes fly past you at the speed of light. But when you take yourself out from the middle of everything and change your perspective, it's as if the city holds its arms out to you beckoning you to come back and put your own dreams out there so they can spread their wings and fly up to the sky towards the horizon leaving a trail of hope in their path.
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This was taken from the top of Rockefeller Center (also known as Top of the Rock) and it's probably one of the most popular views of the New York City skyline since it includes the Empire State Building and the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan. The view is looking south towards One World Trade Center (also known as the Freedom Tower and 1 WTC) and the skyscrapers of the Financial District.
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Times Square - New York City

- By Vivienne Gucwa
Times Square is its own universe. It's New York City filtered through cinematic dreams and commercially-tinged aspirations wrapped up in flashing lights and colorful billboards. There is a familiarity to it that is tinged with a wild-eyed estranged quality that makes it all the more alluring.
And when a yellow New York City taxi cab drives by at the speed of light under all the flashing lights, it's hard not to smile.
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Brooklyn Bridge - Under Future Skies - New York City

- By Vivienne Gucwa
Old metropolises stood partially intact - lit with a colorful glow that emanated from crowded skies: remains from a future that soared past the earth.
The skies were dark with the exhaust of sky-borne vehicles and burned out stars: remains from a present littered behind the future.
And under the left-over sky-rubble, old architecture rose from the ground stubbornly: remains from a past left behind long ago.
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The Empire State Building and New York City Rooftops

- By Vivienne Gucwa
The Empire State Building always seems to stand out when viewing certain cross-sections of the New York City skyline. I have always imagined it to be an urban lighthouse helping all urban wanderers navigate through the dense sea of buildings that surround its distinctive shape.
This vantage point is from a rooftop located as far west as you can possibly go in Chelsea before landing in the Hudson River.
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Urban Mirages - Soho Street - New York City

- By Vivienne Gucwa
In the bright afternoon light of the sun, the city squints its eyes momentarily.
Buildings emerge from their slumbering shadows and streets glisten.
It's during this momentary squint that every sun gleam and distant figure on each sun-kissed street flicker in and out of view: urban mirages filtered through the eyes of the city.
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